I hatred bitter coffee [rant]

What kind of coffee do you like?

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Albany Tom said:
When I was something like 8 I tried coffee, and it was terrible. Some old person (could have been 20) said "it's an acquired taste, you'll learn to like it when you get older". My reaction was to look at them like they were an idiot, and think to myself "why the f would I ever do that?". Haven't tried it since then. Life's too short for beverages you don't like.
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Similar experience for me. Family reunion in Canada one year. I was probably 6. Thought I grabbed my can of soda. Turned out to be beer. Promptly put it back and nobody noticed. Then tried not to yak. I still hate the taste of beer to this day because of that one incident.
 
ha ha... I remember similar experiences with both coffee and beer
but for some reason that I cannot explain, I now enjoy both coffee and beer, just not at the same time....:dunno:
 
For a decent K-Cup brew, try San Francisco Bay FogChaser. I live in South Louisiana and grew up on Community Coffee medium roast or Breakfast Blend, but as I got older, the GI effects got too "explosive," might be the best phrase.

I get my Fogchaser K-Cups from Amazon, but I have seen other SFB brands at Costco a few times. Give it a shot...
 
Ventucky Red said:
37 post and no one has mentioned Cuban Coffee.... or should I say legalized crack.. OK... I'll mention it.. there done
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I was in Miami a few weeks ago. We went to a Cuban place for lunch. The proprietor made us a small cup of Cuban coffee. It was superb. It's like Arabic coffee, but without the cardamom.
 
Star Wars coffee quotes:
Don't give in to the hatred. That leads to the dark roast.
If you only knew the power of the dark roast.
Is the dark roast stronger?
 
That is why I love cold brew coffee...never touches heat which brings out a lot of the acidity and so much less bitter than brewed coffee.

Stupid simple to make and a batch keeps in the fridge for over a week, longer if sealed well.

My mom does not like cold coffee but after turning her on to cold brew she now makes bathes of that in the fridge then just heats up a cup in the microwave as needed for a smoother brew.
 
Albany Tom said:
When I was something like 8 I tried coffee, and it was terrible. Some old person (could have been 20) said "it's an acquired taste, you'll learn to like it when you get older". My reaction was to look at them like they were an idiot, and think to myself "why the f would I ever do that?". Haven't tried it since then. Life's too short for beverages you don't like.
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It’s an acquired taste = I’m easily susceptible to peer pressure and going along with the crowd.

Why would a person continue to consume something that they don’t enjoy long enough to “acquire the taste” for it?
 
During Preflighting I got up to go to the back to get a cup of coffee. I asked the captain if he wanted a cup

Yep.

Ok boss, how do you like it?

I like my coffee like I like my women…

(Oh great, what’s his stupid saying…?)

He looked at his feet and just said: “bitter”

Uh, things not good at home boss?

Nope.

I peed myself and said, “ok, one bitter coffee coming up”
 
I hatred crappy coffee. Water dressed in brown or that has been sitting on some hot plate for hours. Or not properly cleaned in eons.

That said, sensitivity to bitterness is genetic, or so my soon to sold to the highest bidder 23 and Me data tells me. And it turns out, I like bitter. Angry and bitter, IPA, coffee, brussel sprouts, etc., bring it.
 
masloki said:
I hatred crappy coffee. Water dressed in brown or that has been sitting on some hot plate for hours. Or not properly cleaned in eons.
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Yes! I can get onboard with that. The coffee should look completely opaque as it’s being poured into my cup. If I can see through it, it’s red flag number one. It makes me cringe when I visit an FBO or some place and there’s a decanter on a hot plate that smells burnt. I am a coffee snob, it has to be right - like c’mon, you had one job!
 
Ventucky Red said:
I bougt some coffe home with me and have been trying to replicate it... I am thinking it is the water.
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The water actually accounts for a lot more than most think. I use a high pH or triple filtered water for my morning coffee, rather than tap water. A barista that we know was talking all about this, and it’s very true.

The sulfuric tap water in Florida will give an entirely different outcome than the tap water here. Some people will say the coffee in Hawaii is the best they’ve ever had, I’d argue it’s more the water they’re using than the specific roast.
 
I'll have coffee once in a while. There is a direct correlation between the level of darkness and the amount of sugar I put in it.
 
RyanB said:
The water actually accounts for a lot more than most think. I use a high pH or triple filtered water for my morning coffee, rather than tap water. A barista that we know was talking all about this, and it’s very true.

The sulfuric tap water in Florida will give an entirely different outcome than the tap water here. Some people will say the coffee in Hawaii is the best they’ve ever had, I’d argue it’s more the water they’re using than the specific roast.
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Probably the best thing I’ve done for our house is biting the bullet for a whole-house reverse osmosis system and a deeper well. RO gives us bottled water quality from the tap. No more sulfur smell, rust stains or dingy clothes.
 
ateamer said:
Probably the best thing I’ve done for our house is biting the bullet for a whole-house reverse osmosis system and a deeper well. RO gives us bottled water quality from the tap. No more sulfur smell, rust stains or dingy clothes.
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I bet that is nice!
 
The only coffee I can tolerate is more akin to syrup. Unless haagen dazs coffee ice cream counts.
 
RyanB said:
Starbucks is my favorite. A black Pike roast or the Yukon… the best.
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RyanB said:
I am a coffee snob...
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Nauga,
all in good fun
 
Sac Arrow said:
If I don't go in to the office, I go to the store next to the gym and get a coffee. Which... I don't like. They have Peet's coffee. I f****g hate Peet's coffee. It's bitter. In the last few months I've switched to iced Americano because it's slightly easier to drink than their brewed coffee or their cold brew, and even then I sort of need a shot of sugar free vanilla to tone it down. But, if I buy ten of them, I get one free, so, on my free ones, I get an extra large vanilla latte. $$$$$. But it's yummy because the bitterness of their horrid coffee is buried.
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As a non-coffee drinker, maybe I'm being dense here, but.... if you don't like Peet's, f-ing hate it, whatever, why do you go there, again? I legitimately don't understand. To me that's like saying "I go to Taco Bell every day for lunch. I hate it. Sometimes I get a burrito instead of tacos because they suck slightly less." Why do that to yourself?

Albany Tom said:
When I was something like 8 I tried coffee, and it was terrible. Some old person (could have been 20) said "it's an acquired taste, you'll learn to like it when you get older". My reaction was to look at them like they were an idiot, and think to myself "why the f would I ever do that?". Haven't tried it since then. Life's too short for beverages you don't like.
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Pretty much my exact story. Parents drank coffee, I tried it, thought it was gross, got the "you'll learn to like it" speech, and figured, "why would I want to even try?"
 
RyanB said:
The water actually accounts for a lot more than most think. I use a high pH or triple filtered water for my morning coffee, rather than tap water.
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I use tap water wherever I happen to be* and my coffee is excellent - for me. To my taste and based on a lot of fiddling, the most influential factors (in order) for are:
(French Press)
1. Roast (dark but not oily. Just into second crack IYKWIM).
2. Bean
3. Brewing temperature (we found that steeping at ~80C tastes *much* better than hotter. Yes, we were surprised too)
4. Steep time (relatively short) and agitation (please don't)
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(Espresso)
1. Roast
2. Bean
3. Extraction time (includes grind, pressure and tamp)
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Water is somewhere down here at the bottom, as is age of the beans. This assumes the water is at least drinkable and odor-free, but pH and mineral content don't seem to make much difference to me. With brewed coffee age doesn't matter too much either, assuming I started with decent beans and a good roast and store them properly. I've had month-old home-roasted beans that were far better than local "fresh-roasted" stuff I saw come out of the roaster. With espresso the flavor is still good with older beans but there isn't as much crema, which I like. Literal "fresh-roasted" (as in out of the roaster and into the pot), even with quality stuff, tastes like grass to me and needs a day or two to off-gas.

In no way do I mean to imply that this is the only way to rank these factors. This is what we've found according to our tastes. If someone tells you doing XXX is the only way to make good coffee they're blowing smoke up your percolator. Find what you like. Do it. Drink and enjoy.

Nauga,
shakin' all over
 
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RussR said:
As a non-coffee drinker, maybe I'm being dense here, but.... if you don't like Peet's, f-ing hate it, whatever, why do you go there, again? I legitimately don't understand.
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"Coffee" shops have gradually evolved into places people that don't like coffee can get coffee drinks that don't taste like coffee so they can say they like coffee.
RussR said:
Pretty much my exact story. Parents drank coffee, I tried it, thought it was gross, got the "you'll learn to like it" speech, and figured, "why would I want to even try?"
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Growing up my only experience with coffee was super-sweet and with creamers and other flavors added. I thought it was disgusting and didn't try coffee again right up until starting my first job out of college. There wasn't any of that crap in the coffee mess, just a pot, some sugar, and "whitener." My first cup of black coffee was eye-opening. A couple of years later, my first proper espresso was life-changing. Literally.

Nauga,
beaned
 
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So where does "moka pot" fit in regards to the polling categories?
 
nauga said:
There wasn't any of that crap in the coffee mess, just a pot, some sugar, and "whitener." My first cup of black coffee was eye-opening. A couple of years later, my first proper espresso was life-changing. Literally.
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I used to drink coffee with sugar and cream. Then, while in medical school, I began to think that the Navy Chiefs probably wouldn't respect an officer who didn't drink proper Navy black coffee, so I made a deliberate effort to develop a taste for black coffee by means of a local bakery, which had pretty a pretty good French Roast. Suffice it to say that I've drunk and enjoyed black coffee ever since. Annoyingly, once I finally found myself aboard a CVN with the air wing, I discovered that there was a "Starbucks" on the second deck and most of the Chiefs were walking around drinking caramel lattes. It's a new Navy.

And it turned out that my coffee habits were the least of the reasons the Chiefs had for not respecting me. :D
 
nauga said:
… A couple of years later, my first proper espresso was life-changing. Literally.

Nauga,
beaned
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Had always been a black coffee drinker without much care until I got sent TDY to Aviano in the late 90s. The Italians know how to make espresso.

Life changing.
 
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